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Be all that you can be…in the cloud

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Tim Harder

Lynn Schnurr, the director of Intelligence Community Information Management for the Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, gave a presentation at the Army IT Day in Vienna, Va. earlier this month. During her presentation, she discussed a handful of new technologies and initiatives that the Army is currently developing to help the warfighter on the battlefield [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Army, Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, Army IT Day, cloud, cloud computing, datacenter, datacenter consolidation, datacenter virtualization, department of defense, DoD, intelligence agencies, intelligence community, Intelligence Community Information Management, Land Intelligence, Lynn Schnurr, Surveillance and Reconnaissance network | Leave a Comment »

Get the most out of the cloud with bandwidth acceleration

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Tim Harder

In a previous post on GovCloudTalk, we discussed the steps that government agencies can take towards embracing cloud computing. During the course of the shift to the cloud, resources across multiple datacenters are aggregated and work as a single resource pool. Unfortunately, many datacenter managers overlook the actual physics of moving the data between those [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Asankya, Aspera, bandwidth, bandwidth acceleration, Cisco, cloud computing, cloud service providers, cloud service solutions, EMC, federal government, network acceleration, Riverbed, Silver Peak | Leave a Comment »

Is the new government cloud directive a red flag for IT workers?

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Tim Harder

As we’ve discussed in the past, Obama’s technology team, including Vivek Kundra, the country’s CIO, is looking for ways in which the federal government can improve its IT acquisition process and adopt technologies that can make the government operate more effectively and efficiently. Last Thursday, Kundra announced a series of steps that the government is [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: cloud, cloud computing, cloud service providers, data centers, datacenter consolidation, datacenter virtualization, datacenters, department of defense, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, DoD, Federal CIO, federal cloud, Government cloud, government datacenters, IaaS, infrastructure-as-a-service, IT, IT acquisition process, Obama Administration, President Obama, private cloud, Vivek Kundra | Leave a Comment »

American innovation takes another one on the chin

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Tim Harder

America was always the nation that built things. We were the leaders in innovation and research. We made the first automobile on a mass production assembly line. We invented the telephone. We sent the first man to the moon. Heck, we invented the pop-up toaster (seriously…look it up). Unfortunately, our country has been losing its [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: China, cloud, cloud computing, Congress, development, economy, EMC, engineering, federal budget deficit, global economy, India, innovation, invention, IT, math, R&D, R&D tax credits, research, science, STEM, STEM subjects, technology | 2 Comments »

Why Amazon pulled the cloud out from under WikiLeaks

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Tim Harder

Unless you’ve been in hiding in a cave somewhere, you’ve probably heard about WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks Website is an international organization that publishes submissions of classified, leaked and otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources. Julian Assange is the site’s founder and editor in chief. WikiLeaks has run afoul of [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Amazon, Amazon.com, censorship, cloud, cloud computing, cloud service provider, Julian Assange, leaked documents, WikiLeaks | 2 Comments »

Where we’re falling down: the administration’s plans to fix government IT

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Tim Harder

In my last post, I discussed a speech given by Jeffrey Zients, the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC). In the speech, Mr. Zients discussed the new programs being endorsed by the Obama Administration that would require agencies looking for new IT development to [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: acquisition reform, acquisition workforce, cloud, IT, Jeffrey Zients, Northern Virginia Tech Council, Northern Virginia Technology Council, NVTC, Obama Administration, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, President Obama | 1 Comment »

White House dives into IT savings “cloud first”

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Tim Harder

Facing an estimated federal deficit of $1.3 trillion dollars, the Obama Administration has been looking to find ways to trim budgets and reduce government spending however possible. The situation has gotten so bad, that this week the president asked for a federal employee pay freeze. This would save $2 billion for the remainder of this [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: cloud computing, datacenter, datacenter consolidation, datacenter virtualization, federal deficit, federal pay freeze, Jeffrey Zients, Obama Administration, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, White House | 2 Comments »

Rogue applications not such rogues anymore…

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Tim Harder

In a recent column that he penned for Government Computer News, Michael Daconta, the chief technology officer at Accelerated Information Management and former metadata program manager at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed “rogue applications” being developed on Microsoft Access within government agency divisions. He also discussed the headache that they’ve become for the enterprise [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Accelerated Information Management, cloud computing, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, GCN, Government Computer News, Groovy, Heroku, IT, Michael Daconta, Microsoft Access, MySQL, NoSQL, rougue applications, Ruby, Spring, SQL | 1 Comment »

Tell the federal government how it can fix cloud accreditation!

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Tim Harder

Okay, I know I’ve written about the accreditation process for cloud computing solutions quite frequently in the last few weeks. It’s just been a hot topic in light of the recent NIST event and all of the talk around streamlining cloud accreditation via FedRAMP. But this is the last time I’m going to write about [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: accreditation, cloud computing, cyber security, cybersecurity, department of defense, DoD, Federal CIO Council, FEDRAMP, General Services Administration, GSA, intelligence community, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST | 1 Comment »

Making “Big Data” more manageable

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Tim Harder

In a recent post we discussed how datacenters are being inundated with data due to a proliferation of handheld devices, SaaS applications, networked sensors and other input devices. The end result of this glut of data being ingested by datacenters is a situation where data capture, storage, searching, sharing, analyzing, and visualizing are awkward and [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Atmos, big data, cloud computing, datacenter, EMC, federal government, Isilon, NAS, network attached storage, SaaS | Leave a Comment »

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